Category: Bobsleigh

Russian scandal couldn’t overshadow spectacular sport and thawing relations between North and South KoreaMoments before the XXIII Winter Games ended amid a furious barrage of K-pop and firecrackers, the president of the International Olympic Committee,…

Decision comes after two athletes from Russia failed drug testsHowever IOC said Russian Olympic ban could be overturned soonRussian athletes will not be allowed to march under their country’s flag at Sunday’s closing ceremony because of their two faile…

• Pair achieve best ever British finish in event with eighth place• Athletes appealed to public after their funding was pulledThe crowd-funded duo of Mica McNeill and Mica Moore achieved Britain’s best ever result in the women’s bobsleigh on Wednesday …

Seun Adigun and Akuoma Omeoga will not win a medal but reached a significant landmark as Africa’s first-ever Olympians in the eventGrowing up in Nigeria, Kola Adigun never imagined he would be sitting on a freezing mountain in South Korea watching his …

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• Sandra Kiriasis quits as coach of the Jamaican bobsleigh team• Jamaica’s first female Winter Olympians begin campaign next weekSandra Kiriasis has quit as coach of the Jamaican bobsleigh team a few days before the start of their competition and has b…

From British speed skater Elise Christie to American prodigy Nathan Chen, via Nigeria’s unlikely bobsleigh team, a unified Korean women’s ice hockey side and moreFour years have passed since Elise Christie had an Olympic silver medal ripped from her in…

The American bobsledder with a passion for speed won Olympic gold in 2010 and double bronze in 2014 but will be much missed at Pyeongchang 2018 after his death last yearThere are countless routes down the mountain, but Steve Holcomb only cared about on…

Mica McNeill was ‘heartbroken, gobsmacked and so angry’ when she lost her Olympic funding – but a remarkable response from the public means she will be on the start line in PyeongchangI can tell Mica McNeill is a fighter even before hearing her story o…

After financial ‘mismanagement’ at British Bobsleigh ended Mica McNeill’s hopes of a place at the 2018 Winter Olympics, she decided to crowdfund the money needed to complete her season and remain in contention. She did so successfully, in just five day…

• New head coach Lee Johnston was disciplined over remarks made in 2013• BBSA’s financial management also questioned after £500,000 spent on sled

The new head coach of British Bobsleigh, Lee Johnston, who was promoted to the position just over a fortnight ago, was formally disciplined and warned as to his future conduct after making derogatory remarks about black drivers in 2013, the Guardian can reveal.

Johnston, a 12-times British champion who went to the Winter Olympics in 1998, 2002 and 2006 before becoming a coach, was accused of saying to a member of the squad, Toby Olubi, “I knew you would be late because you are black”, and later in the same training session, on 4 July 2013, “Black drivers do not make good bobsleigh drivers.”

The decision to continue funding all three men’s British bobsleigh teams while cutting financial backing for the only women’s crew has been branded “confusing” by the driver who started an online campaign to keep her Olympic dream afloat.

Mica McNeill said she wants people at the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association to be held accountable after financial “mismanagement” led to a £50,000 overspend at the governing body.

The coach of British Bobsleigh has resigned in the wake of allegations of bullying and discrimination within the Olympic programme.

Dominik Scherrer has left less than five months before the start of the 2018 Winter Olympics. Although he is not personally accused of any wrongdoing he claimed a change in strategy at the governing body had made him feel unable to do his job. Bobsleigh is one of several sports which has undergone an independent review after being implicated in the duty of care scandal afflicting British Olympic and Paralympic sport.

• Athletes warned not to complain about authoritarian atmosphere• Team members liken ‘toxic’ culture to that in British Cycling

British Bobsleigh warned athletes they could lose their chance of competing at the Olympics if they dared to speak out publicly about issues such as bullying, sexism and racism, the Observer can reveal. An email seen by this newspaper also shows that athletes and staff were threatened with legal action weeks before the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi if they talked publicly about an affair between a male coach, who was on British Bobsleigh’s three-person selection panel, and a female athlete.

Sochi has been stripped of February’s bobsleigh and skeleton world championships in the wake of the second McLaren report into state-sponsored doping in Russia.

The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) had come under increasing pressure to take the event away from the 2014 Winter Olympics host city after the damning report last week by the Canadian law professor Richard McLaren which implicated more than 1,000 Russian athletes in a state-sponsored doping programme, including many Winter Olympians.

• Lamin Deen’s crew avoid serious injury in accident in Igls• GB crew had been in fourth place going into the final two runs

Great Britain’s bobsleigh team emerged unscathed from a dramatic crash that wrecked their hopes of a first four-man medal in 77 years at the world championships in Igls on Sunday.

The GB1 crew piloted by Lamin Deen had high hopes of ending the wait after going into the final two runs of the competition sitting in fourth place, only 0.02 seconds off bronze. But their push to make up time on the teams above them cost them dear as their sled rolled over out of corner nine and careered down the rest of the course on its side.